tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post5080645837120851956..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Adderbury, OxfordshirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-81699674529739961022016-05-18T10:53:46.461+01:002016-05-18T10:53:46.461+01:00Again, I'm not sold on the "symbolism&quo...Again, I'm not sold on the "symbolism" aspect. Nor do I think the citizens of Adderbury would have been unaware of the sea and its character - my own research into the Magnus inscription at Lewes now leads me to think that even an "illiterate" could HEAR (in Latin, French or Middle English) of a complex and various world that was possibly even less insular than our own Western-biased civilisation. 14th century authors refer to Classical writers so casually, I suspect that even the ordinary villager was more conversant with Greece and Rome than we generally are these days. And Gothic church architecture is no primitive thing either. How many e.g. village community centres and the like built these days would run to carved stone figures and spires, etc.? No, let's not be too hasty in pitying the cultural world of the 14th century! Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-63132444601003336632016-05-17T15:58:59.815+01:002016-05-17T15:58:59.815+01:00These last two posts have been so fascinating that...These last two posts have been so fascinating that I think I will research and write a post about Mermaids (and Mermen). There <i>must</i> be strong symbolism in any pictorial adornment of a largely illiterate age. Weren't the Sirens who called ancient sailors to their deaths mermaids? Anyway they must have been forgiven as they now even feature in the Starbucks trademark!<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s fabulous Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.com